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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.110004.16663@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 11:00:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.035348.26595@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec24.033418.28702@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec24.200625.4977@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec29.214302.12214@microsoft.com>
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- philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec24.200625.4977@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>
- >>I am getting 4 x 4meg simms on Tuesday. As for the FUD....I am relating what
- >>happened when I used NT. If it weren't true.....that might be FUD. The fact
- >>is, the system needs 16megs of RAM and eats up 90megs of hard disk....whatever
- >>machine you install it on.....
-
- > Steve, I'm disappointed in you. The above is clearly FUD - the fact
- >that the Windows NT installation that you tested didn't perform well
- >for you says nothing about all the other machines in the world, unless
- >you feel that your single PC is somehow representative of PCs
- >everywhere. I also suspect that your copy of Windows NT was poorly
- >installed - I've been using Windows NT for months now and have only
- >crashed once. And it takes less that 90MB of disk space for me.
-
- Ah, but your from Microsoft. You must be using an undocumented
- slim install, no crash feature :-)
-
- > -Phil
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- >Phil Lafornara 1 Microsoft Way
- >philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- >Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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